# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第百四十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 148) - Law: 医療法 (Medical Care Act), 昭和二十三年法律第二百五号 - English title "Medical Care Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第百四十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 148) — address `suppl-3231-205/art-148` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-148 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-148 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百四十八条 suppl-3231-205/art-148 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-148 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-148 **第一項** 第百十一条又は第百二十六条の規定に基づく命令に違反した場合には、当該違反行為をした者は、六月以下の拘禁刑又は三十万円以下の罰金に処する。 suppl-3231-205/art-148/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-148/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-148/par-1 In the case where an order based on the provisions of Article 111 or Article 126 has been violated, the person who committed the violation is punished by imprisonment for up to six months or a fine of up to 300,000 yen. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3231-205/art-148/par-1: 第百十一条 → 医療法 附則第百十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 111), suppl-3231-205/art-111 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-111 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-111 - suppl-3231-205/art-148/par-1: 第百二十六条 → 医療法 附則第百二十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 126), suppl-3231-205/art-126 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-126 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-126 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 附則第百五十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-3231-205/art-150/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-3231-205/art-150/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 医療法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000205/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Medical Care Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch medical-care-act-20261019T151250-015, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19